| 单词 | hobgoblin |
| 例句 | “In that case,” she says, “I’ll be Sarah. You be Jack. Boomer, you get to be the hobgoblin king.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z A moment ago there had been no Yossarians in his life; now they were multiplying like hobgoblins. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Other hobgoblins were the brainchildren of self-proclaimed experts who cooked up idiosyncratic theories of how language ought to behave, usually with a puritanical undercurrent in which people’s natural inclinations must be a form of dissoluteness. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The hobgoblin king had fled into the night with his queen, leaving his wrought iron crown to clatter to the ground. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The farmers didn’t believe in Wood fairies, but they listened for the tread of field dwellers and hobgoblins, who could bless a crop or eat it all. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, Jack and Sarah journey across the forest, defeat a troll army, rescue the fairy princess, battle the evil hobgoblin king and queen, and return the world to the sunshine. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Except it’s not the Goldengrove anymore, because the hobgoblin king and queen have captured the fairy princess whose laughter makes the sun rise. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I tried to be brave like Momma or Queen Esther in the Bible, but I just knew there were hobgoblins awalking in the dark, looking to steal the breath from a girl’s body. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Like in The World at the End of the Tunnel when Jack is taken to the hobgoblin king’s castle and thrown in the highest tower. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I sometimes wonder how much irrationality in the world has been excused by the nonsensical saying “Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” a corruption of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s remark about “a foolish consistency.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “It’s not really the Dimwood. There’s no evil hobgoblin king here.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z You’d think I’d get some slack on the price since my face is on the cover of so many magazines, but that only makes the hobgoblin charge me double. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z If she is also thinking about Jack and Sarah stealing through the hobgoblin king’s castle, looking for a way to the dungeons to free the fairy princess. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Sarah and Jack and the clover elves are just about to celebrate their victory over the troll army when an ogre kidnaps Jack and sweeps him off to the hobgoblin king’s castle. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Ralph Waldo Emerson famously linked “foolish consistency” and “the hobgoblins of little minds,” saying that such thinking was “adored by little statesmen and philosopher and divines.” Tim Berresheim's latest show at Meliksetian Briggs revels in the eclectic and the oddball 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, after all. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: A Finale That Tries, Vainly, for the Big Moment 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z There’s a catch: Every day, a blood offering, like a slice of liver, must be left for the Redcaps, the hungry, hooded hobgoblins who call the property home. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z “You can say this phenomenon is caused by poltergeists or hobgoblins or tiny glowing worms from Planet Bellybutton,” Doctor Seward fumes. Review: ‘Dracula’ and ‘Frankenstein’? Nothing to Be Scared Of 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Still, one of the best things on TV, because a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. My Not-Top-Ten Television List, 2018 Edition 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. 11 mistakes novice grillers make — and how to correct them 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z What if I had released myself from the hobgoblins of burden and lived – simply that – allowing myself to be surprised by the unexpected, the accidental, and the found magic of the everyday? Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell – rereading 2012-06-08T21:55:17Z But Mothersbaugh -- like the rest of us -- probably deserves the benefit of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s dictum that “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Mark Mothersbaugh museum exhibition to reach Santa Monica in 2016 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Perhaps that’s why President Trump shows up only peripherally, in projected images or as a kind of hovering hobgoblin. Review: Michael Moore, Bragging on Broadway, in ‘The Terms of My Surrender’ 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z The moral may be that the child bedeviled by hobgoblins of small minds becomes a monster himself. ‘Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000’ at MoMA 2012-07-26T16:28:17Z Case in point: Talley says he keeps trying to get the word “hobgoblin” into a speech. Meet the ghost hunter and horror novelist who writes Sen. Rob Portman’s speeches 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z It is in part because of these abilities that she became a hobgoblin of the right - a villain whose name or imagine headlined countless fundraising pitches and political adverts. Nancy Pelosi stands down as leader of US House Democrats 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z I’m fine with that; a foolish adherence to canon is the hobgoblin of small minds. That raggedy guy in The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power teasers? Gandalf. 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” Emerson wrote, and in this respect at least, Thiel’s intellect lives up to its billing. Review: Does billionaire contrarian Peter Thiel contain multitudes? A biography weighs in 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” Opinion | Learning as we go on the coronavirus 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z Ralph Waldo Emerson is often misquoted as having said “consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Six tips to get enough sleep despite switch to daylight saving time on March 14 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Dismissing the hobgoblin of consistency, I drove to the Odyssey on Saturday afternoon with a feeling of genuine excitement. Column: David Mamet just tested a new play in L.A. Why you didn't hear about it 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Sanders, by contrast, discredits himself by falling prey to the “foolish consistency” that Ralph Waldo Emerson called “the hobgoblin of little minds.” Opinion | Bernie Sanders is ‘insanely consistent.’ That’s nothing to brag about. 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z If consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, as Emerson famously observed, then maybe Donald Trump really is the "stable genius" he has proclaimed himself. Waterloo for the anti-anti-Trump left (and all other normalizers): You knew he was a snake 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z "This thing is a gigantic hobgoblin for her. She's freaked out by it and she does not want to entrust us with conducting a trial." Sen. Mike Lee: Trump impeachment trial is 'a gigantic hobgoblin' to 'scared-to-death' Pelosi 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z He will run not merely to restore honesty and decency to public life, as in my friend’s well-tailored Romney-Booker hobgoblin fantasy ticket. Beware Joe Biden's "national unity" campaign: Win or lose, it's a bad idea 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z It’s a sweet coming-of-age story, that just happens to be populated by flesh-eating hobgoblins. For more kid-friendly horror like The House with a Clock in Its Walls, stream The Gate 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z “So it’s ‘Bolton unleashed’ on his hobgoblins without much to restrain him. Donald Trump vs. international law: Overturning the legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, Ralph Waldo Emerson once said. Loss to Broncos shows Seahawks fans should brace themselves for a rollercoaster season 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z The first English translation of the “Communist Manifesto” read, “A frightful hobgoblin stalks throughout Europe. We are haunted by a ghost, the ghost of Communism.” Boots Riley takes on the nightmare of American capitalism 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Kluber was beset by the same hobgoblins that troubled him last year in the playoffs — yielding two home runs, one to Gardner and another to Didi Gregorius, who hit two off him in Game 5. A Potential Pitching Showcase Melts Into a Rugged Yankees Win 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z If you had to identify the hobgoblins used by Trump, used by traditional conservatives and used by the left which you think infringe upon liberty, which would you identify? GOP Senate candidate Austin Petersen: My party is “spineless” on trade, prison, immigration 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z In the original Incredibles, we see Jack-Jack turn into a baby made of flames, a baby made of metal, and then into a hobgoblin, all in an attempt to escape Syndrome’s kidnapping. Here are all of Jack-Jack’s powers in the Incredibles 2 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z A maddening inconsistency is the hobgoblin of young and/or transitioning football teams. Loss to Broncos shows Seahawks fans should brace themselves for a rollercoaster season 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z The witches used some as nests, too, leaving them for hobgoblins to sleep in. Every Cell in Your Body Has the Same DNA. Except It Doesn’t. 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Alternate realities have become hobgoblins of our time. How images — sometimes manipulated and altered — are shaping the seething world of our politics 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump might argue, like Ralph Waldo Emerson, that “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Trump’s Tweets on Syria, Russia and China: The Triumph of Contradiction 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Sure enough, the transcripts of the dozens of hearings held by the town’s planning board, which run to nearly 7,000 pages, contain no mention of sharia, the Muslim Brotherhood or other rightwing hobgoblins. How to stop a mosque: the new playbook of the right 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z While a foolish constistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, a fooilih inconsistency is the harbinger of a toxic brew of ignorance and hubris. Trump, Aiming to Coax Xi Jinping, Bets on Flattery 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z It is the hobgoblin of the littlest mind to live tweet your response to a television show. The president of the United States appears untethered to reality | Richard Wolffe 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z “But I reserved the right to change my mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, ‘A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.’” The Eagles call on family — and Vince Gill — to carry on without Glenn Frey for Classic West-East shows 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z “A foolish consistency,” Emerson remarks soon after this, “is the hobgoblin of little minds.” The 100 best nonfiction books: No 69 – Essays by RW Emerson (1841) 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z In the last four games of its six-game win streak, Towson has given up 65, 66, 65 and 65 points, proving that consistency is a hobgoblin that knows how to clog the lane. Maryland takes over No. 1 spot in Atlantic 11 poll from reeling Virginia 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Bill, take encouragement in the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. … With consistency, a great soul has simply nothing to do.” Letters: Hey, did you hear? The Chargers are coming 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z It’s still not clear exactly what happened and why, but absent independent confirmation from Hello Games, it certainly appears to be the work of Internet hobgoblins looking to stir things up. Hello Games Says It Didn't Call 'No Man's Sky' a Mistake 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z ‘A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Political Reporters’ Hobgoblin 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Perhaps the old saying is right and consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. Donald Trump Sells Out To Trickle-Down Economics 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Emerson famously remarked that “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” Is Donald Trump a Flip-Flopper or a Wily Politician? 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z He is a living example of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s observation that “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” Mr. Trump knows to avoid ‘foolish consistency’ in his stances 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z But scoring high is only half the battle: random hazards that deplete crew health, freeze their rolls or vaporize dice entirely lie in wait like interstellar hobgoblins. Review: 'Tharsis' Is an Ingenious Game That Will Break You 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Paul Kingsnorth The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx “A frightful hobgoblin stalks through Europe ... ” that was how the first, botched attempt to translate the Communist Manifesto into English began. Ten books that changed the world 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Although a foolish consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, courts do not demand any such consistency from a jury. Ex-Goldman Sachs Programmer’s Twisting Case Has a Few Turns Left 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Yet these “confessions of a comma queen” are no mere roundup of Miss Thistlebottom’s hobgoblins. Eats, shoots and punctuates 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines,” Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote. Obamacare’s rescuer? 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z It is, however, a meme popular with the feminist left – a hobgoblin they find useful. Harvard Law Fights Awful Ed Department Rules: Bravo, But No School Should Have To 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z As Ralph Waldo Emerson famously observed: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” Trump and Rove fight over Romney 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Alter ego: Remember Longfellow: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” How Helicopter Parents Can Help Their Kids Apply to the Right Colleges 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z While it’s true that consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, oil pundits are now inflicting whiplash on their audience. Oil Prices: Where's The Bottom? 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z So making them the new Halloween hobgoblin is not about tax law — it’s about politics. Inversions: The Hobgoblin Of Little Minds 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z "You encounter a pair of hobgoblins which you must FIGHT!" Turn to page 86. And your doom! 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z When confronting hobgoblins conjured by politicians and advocacy groups do pause to reflect on Eisenhower’s insight that the important problems are never urgent. Threatened 'Global Catastrophes' Keeping You Up At Night? Rest Easy. 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z There’s a famous old saying from Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Solid Management Is Built On A Foundation Of Consistency 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z “Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” the former president joked. Dana Milbank: Chris Christie plays the blame game Even in Germany, haunted by the historical hobgoblin of inflation fears, prices rose at an annual rate of just 1.2 percent last month. Economists Sound the Alarm on Deflation in Europe 2014-02-05T20:49:31Z An old saying about consistency and hobgoblins comes to mind. The GOP wants you to go to work sick 2013-06-26T12:45:00Z They use concocted urgent threats to get it: “endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” Threatened 'Global Catastrophes' Keeping You Up At Night? Rest Easy. 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z As Emerson said, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” When Experience Betrays You 2013-05-29T14:01:12Z “A foolish consistency,” Emerson famously wrote, “is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Remembering Stan Musial: St. Louis Baseball Legend Dies at 92 2013-01-20T05:05:22Z It too was a hobgoblin, which the Romney campaign justified by putting out a press release that admitted the deception. Behind President Obama's Inaccurate Abortion Ad 2012-07-11T19:05:30Z The new law also supports teachers who want to question accepted scientific thinking on two other hobgoblins of the far right: global warming and human cloning. Are We Sliding Backward on Teaching Evolution? 2012-04-23T10:30:37Z “Consistency,” Mr. Koch said more than once, “is the hobgoblin of small minds.” City Room: At City Hall, a Matter of Transparency 2012-04-12T13:20:10Z I might have introduced a very novel rolling of drums in the bass, and blasts of trumpets in the treble, and have brought in all sorts of hobgoblins. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z "This intensely white moonlight is positively creepy; it is made for hobgoblins and sheeted spectres; the Belmonte monk must certainly be dancing on the top of his tower." Dorothy and other Italian Stories 2012-03-18T02:00:18.513Z Below us, in the centre of a steep hollow, a pit in the hill-side, a light shone out through some aperture and quivered on the mist, like the pale lamp of a moorland hobgoblin. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z Thus their darkest disclosures are not hobgoblin shows, but precious revelations. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z What Emerson actually said was, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” adding that it was “adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” City Room: At City Hall, a Matter of Transparency 2012-04-12T13:20:10Z The hobgoblins and the bearded Druid, with the trombones sounding behind him, diverted me immensely, and so I passed two forenoons very happily. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z When at length expanded, these blossoms have the look of some rapacious, hobgoblin spider, lurking for its prey. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Amongst the toy-people who are gradually diminishing may be mentioned monks, hobgoblins, and kings—an evil omen for the matter of that. Vagaries 2012-02-17T03:00:27.693Z Henceforth shall no hobgoblin wander in this Castle; I return to my long-wished-for rest. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z Up, Miles, to your task; take your brown-bill in your hand; here’s some of your master’s hobgoblins abroad. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z At last even he, who was sceptical and would not believe in hobgoblins, or ghosts, or spirits, or any of those fantastic creatures that exist outside the material mind, resolved to investigate for himself. The Unpublishable Memoirs 2012-02-03T03:00:18.447Z These, however, were either mere adventurers, or the firm believers in ghosts and hobgoblins. Gleanings by the Way 2012-01-24T03:00:27.717Z But Snockerty was of the stripe of trolls, leprechauns, pucks, and hobgoblins. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z What do you know about that?” exclaimed Nixon with a rueful whistle: that dark hobgoblin, Fear, was more absurdly entrenched than he had thought possible. A Scout of To-day 2012-01-11T03:00:22.820Z It was the dead hour of midnight, when ghosts, hobgoblins, and spirits of every name and description, go roaming over the wide world, and when all creation, both animate and inanimate, is in deep repose. Folk-Tales of Bengal 2012-01-05T03:00:45.240Z Besides there were hobgoblins—monsters of every kind in the land beyond the Tanganika. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z The Jesuits who had such things, and talked in such learned language could surely be nothing less than hobgoblins, unnatural sprites and wicked spirits. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z "Well, what does that mean about a buckwheat hobgoblin having a suspicious explosion?" In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z The silence was almost religious; the darkness suggested witchcraft rather than night; a hobgoblin might have sprung out of the coffee-maker's pot and not been out of keeping with the natural sequence of events. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z It used to be associated with legends of hobgoblins, fairies, dragons, etc. From the Thames to the Tiber or, My visit to Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Switzerland, etc. 2011-12-03T03:00:10.397Z Technology alone is seldom strong enough to slay that hobgoblin. How Will Electric Utilities Respond to the Smart Grid's Data Deluge? 2011-12-01T01:48:17Z The children, whirled from reality into a phantasmagoria of adventure, are deftly and happily drawn, the fairies have fairy grace, and the rout of hobgoblins and grotesques fill their parts. English Book-Illustration of To-day Appreciations of the Work of Living English Illustrators With Lists of Their Books 2011-11-30T03:00:10.703Z Hope with her gay ensigns displayed at the prow, Fear with her hobgoblins behind the stern. Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z Nor do the parents fill the childish mind with tales of goblins and hobgoblins to excite terror in his little heart. The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid 2011-11-06T02:00:13.167Z Superstition has arrayed all her hobgoblins against it. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z Some fright their children with beggars, bugbears, and hobgoblins, if they cry or be otherways unruly.” The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times 2011-10-23T02:00:21.883Z The witch is not more distinctly a child-eating hobgoblin than is the capitalist of such fervid song. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z All the magicians, necromancers, wizards, witches, conjurors, gypsies, sybils, hobgoblins, apparitions and the like, are supposed to be under their diabolical government: old Belzebub rules them all. Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion 2011-10-12T02:00:53.110Z No, Hodge; by the same token you were that time beshitten For fear of hobgoblin—you wot well what I mean; As long as it is since, I fear me yet ye be scarce clean. Gammer Gurton's Needle 2011-09-24T02:00:15.643Z My own place with the terra-cotta festoons and hobgoblins was now more than half empty. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z That voice annihilated the whole pack of hobgoblins; the spectres of the middle ages fled; the owls crept again into their obscure castle-ruins, and the ravens fluttered back to their old church-steeples. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z “Yes; we were looking for the church,” replied Miss Sallie in a somewhat mollified tone, considering she had just called him a hobgoblin on an infernal machine. The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow 2011-09-18T02:00:23.270Z What can the tricks and malice of hobgoblins, or even the freaks and vagaries of fortune itself, enact against youth, beauty, and health such as yours? The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:32.663Z The negro leaped out of the hole, the doctor dropped his book and basket, and they all fled in different directions, thinking that a legion of hobgoblins were after them. The Strange Story Book 2011-09-15T02:00:13.747Z The hobgoblins are out in the bog, and as they are near relations of the Spriggans, they are hand in glove with them. The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall 2011-08-30T02:00:37.027Z The supernatural beings that figure in old French fabliaux and legends are bright and cheerful creations, and remarkable for a cleanliness which is noticeably lacking in our filthy rabble of German hobgoblins. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Old nurses put hobgoblin wings upon him to frighten good children; but he has stanch, loving friends among the best and the clearest sighted. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z "What fun it was, especially going by the lions, fighting Apollyon, and passing through the Valley where the hobgoblins were!" said Jo. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z He believed in ghosts, and was always reading stories of hobgoblins and haunted houses. Camp Fires of the Wolf Patrol 2011-07-26T02:00:18.713Z ‘He isn’t really a hare: he is a dreadful little hobgoblin who has been cruel to all the dear Little People you love so much.’ The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall 2011-08-30T02:00:37.027Z Contrary to what most people suspect, the hobgoblin haunting the future prosperity of New York City is the shutdown – not the meltdown – of a nuclear power plant. Indian Point Pumps Nuclear Nonsense into New York City 2011-07-08T06:16:02Z "Ghosts and hobgoblins," answered the farmer; "a fine dance they lead me, I can promise you." A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z No hobgoblin could have a fiercer appearance than the Bishop had, and if Adelaide didn't shriek with pure delight it was because she put her gun across her mouth and bit it. The Bishop and the Boogerman 2011-06-12T02:00:07.497Z Now I hope he hasn't been seeing more of his hobgoblins. Camp Fires of the Wolf Patrol 2011-07-26T02:00:18.713Z The Skavarnak uttered a terrified howl, and Joan, looking down into the Pail, saw, not a hare, but a dreadful little hobgoblin, with ears as long as his ugly little body. The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall 2011-08-30T02:00:37.027Z Contrary to what most people suspect, the hobgoblin haunting the future prosperity of New York City is the shutdown – not the meltdown – of a nuclear power plant. Indian Point Pumps Nuclear Nonsense into New York City 2011-07-08T06:16:02Z A succubus green, or a hobgoblin red, Has it poured o'er thee Horror and Love from its urn? The Flowers of Evil 2011-05-15T02:00:07.523Z Under Victor's cerebral membrane, some hobgoblin had so thrown into pi all the letters of his ideas in the inner letter-case, that he was up to this time gay, but unsatisfied. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z Don't forget your Emerson, who says 'a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen,' and remember, also, 'a wise man sometimes changes his mind, a fool never.' A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z She dropped the Pail in her fright, and the ugly little creature sped away into the darkness, followed by the three wee hares, or hobgoblins, as no doubt they were. The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall 2011-08-30T02:00:37.027Z I have redressed grievances, and righted the injured, chastised the insolent, vanquished giants, and trod elves and hobgoblins under my feet. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z “I’m for a nearer view of the hobgoblin,” he said. Japanese Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:14.617Z "Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, to which the appropriate response is, "Not always, buster." Humanitarian Intervention: Whom to Protect, Whom to Abandon 2011-04-10T05:30:00Z But in talking of many other things the boys soon seemed to forget about these fears on the part of the one who confessed to a belief in hobgoblins. Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence 2011-04-01T02:00:41.017Z ‘The Lantern will not only give warmth if so held, and cloak you from the hobgoblins and wicked Spriggans, but will also give you courage, which you will need crossing this bog country.’ The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall 2011-08-30T02:00:37.027Z They were the hobgoblins of the marble rocks, and were very merry, very useful, and highly respected by every one. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z The brain of this unhappy man projected a hobgoblin as he wandered about in the dark in the rear of his barn; and could it not just as easily have projected a hog? The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z Can it be that, like a boy who fears the coming darkness, the skeptic craves companionship, suspecting hobgoblins after sunset? Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z Right now, I bet you believe deep down in your silly heart, it was a regular hobgoblin. Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence 2011-04-01T02:00:41.017Z "Hob, substantive, short for goblin: as hobgoblin," says Cyril at this moment, having entered, how, or from where, nobody knows. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z They are all so good and kind and yet so free and easy, that I feel like drawing myself together and being alert for hobgoblins that never come. In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z "I see you still preserve your childish respect for the old hobgoblin stories, and are in right earnest afraid of the nixies and the phantom-folk." No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z When I was a boy there was very much said, too, about corpse-candles and phantom funerals, and especially about the Bwganod, plural of Bwgan, meaning a sprite, ghost, hobgoblin, or spectre. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Tanier: The consistency of NFL inconsistency 2010-11-18T13:56:00Z An anecdote about young surfers in Maui is followed by some management lessons drawn from the World of Warcraft, an online game involving swords and hobgoblins. Schumpeter: In search of serendipity 2010-07-22T11:21:00Z These are not the days of fairies and hobgoblins. A Blot on the Scutcheon I have slept as soundly since my return, notwithstanding all the ghosts and hobgoblins, as ever I did in my life. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams Democratic campaign orators never fail to picture, in their denunciation of this hobgoblin, burly negroes guarding the polls with bayonets while timid white men come trembling forward to deposit their ballots. Politics of Alabama The reader will perhaps wonder that in all my notes I have not rationalised a single hobgoblin. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry Sometimes forgetting the dignity of the reformer, he played antics like a German peasant child, or rather like a mischievous hobgoblin. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. We Whigs, Mr. Musgrove, have a little touch of the hobgoblin in us. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency As a little girl I would prefer a hobgoblin I couldn't see, to a real doll stuffed with the best sawdust. A Man in the Open Cornelius Agrippa called such dreaming souls hobgoblins, and when Hamlet refused the bare bodkin because of what dreams may come, it was from no mere literary fancy. Per Amica Silentia Lunae The existences who people this realm are hobgoblins, and the standard of the latter a mild abridgment of the arch-fiend. K. K. K. Sketches, Humorous and Didactic Treating the More Important Events of the Ku-Klux-Klan Movement in the South. With a Discussion of the Causes which gave Rise to it, and the Social and Political Issues Emanating from it. The hobgoblin troop came nearer and nearer, and at last drew up at the mill. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. I. All the hobgoblins, the fears, the morbid misgivings disappear with the bright sunlight and the feel of cold water. The Shadow I thought myself in the centre of some hobgoblin orgie, where demons, male and female, were performing their fantastic antics around me, grinning hideously, and uttering cries of menacing import. Jack Hinton The Guardsman She only remembered alarming stories about hobgoblins and witches, and she began to scream. The Eagle's Nest What community in a land neighbored by mountains but has its "little people," whether fairies, hobgoblins, or gnomes? Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) It must certainly be a set of hobgoblins dispersed in the forest; and there was a man in the wood who saw them, as large as life. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. I. The little hobgoblin with ridiculous pomposity then strode out of the house. Tales from the German. Volume II. The Lichtensteins, The Sorceress, The Anabaptist To be on the track of hobgoblin tales—nothing could be more attractive. Toilers of the Sea It is but a short time ago that the belief in hobgoblins of the wood prevailed among the inhabitants, this foolish superstition having been eradicated only in modern times. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors A nature so hypersensitive perhaps conjured up hobgoblins of persecution out of pure imagination. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) Three idiots of a bad guest-house: an old hag with a chronic cough; a brainless tartar of a girl; a hobgoblin of a gillie. Ancient Irish Poetry For it does, indeed, look as if during the last century all the hobgoblins and all the fairies of Gaul have taken refuge in Britanny. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres It would seem as though a wicked hobgoblin had come up out of the ground and carried them off. Madge Morton's Trust But the singularity about these hobgoblins who are said to haunt the Schwarzwald, is, that they also wear the different costumes of the people. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors Three idiots that are in a bad guest-house: the chronic cough of an old hag, a brainless tartar of a girl, a hobgoblin of a gillie. The Triads of Ireland The age of hobgoblins, haunted houses, and supernatural influences has passed away with the marvels of alchemy and the weird myths of Rosicrucianism. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part Perhaps it is better not to challenge the hobgoblins and fairies on a stormy night, but your fears are idle. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres It is a singular, a delicate world of fays and hobgoblins, made for a woman’s soul. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages Let us endeavor to persuade him not to be afraid of death, as of hobgoblins.' The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings A sober gentleman of very great respectability, who was low-spirited and hypochondriac to a degree, was at times so fanciful, that almost every rustling noise he heard was taken for an apparition or hobgoblin. Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed A remnant of fence like this along an almost obliterated trail in an ancient wood gives a hobgoblin character to the place. Old Plymouth Trails Children in the dark, fear ghosts and hobgoblins; and hence often quake with the same fear through the whole course of their lives. Medica Sacra or a Commentary on on the Most Remarkable Diseases Mentioned in the Holy Scriptures Since die I must, let me die the quickest way; and since I must be eaten at the best of it, let me rather be eaten by hobgoblins than by men. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) The English had a similar hobgoblin in Robin Goodfellow. The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races An Interpretation The invitation, of course, I accepted; and, after a pleasant repast, the cloth being removed, various conversation ensued, and the terminating subject was ghosts and hobgoblins. Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed But they become visible only rarely to the occasional visitor, these real elves and hobgoblins, and often at the best we must note their presence by the trail they have left behind. Old Plymouth Trails Nor is their case different, in my opinion, who persuade themselves that they see ghosts and hobgoblins. Medica Sacra or a Commentary on on the Most Remarkable Diseases Mentioned in the Holy Scriptures Nothing can be so contemptible as the persons or so foolish as the understandings of these hobgoblins. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Sit down beside this light: this is your ring of safety, budge not beyond—the night is crowded with hobgoblins. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV There is no doubt but many of these deceptions have been magnified by weak people into those dreadful stories of apparitions and hobgoblins, which the credulous and enthusiastic are too apt implicitly to believe. Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed Witches, hobgoblins and demons come no longer to trouble us; the most unusual phenomena awaken only philosophical research and curiosity. The Philosophy of Teaching The Teacher, The Pupil, The School Theo-phrastus was such another coward, who beginning to make an oration, was presently struck down with fear, as if he had seen some ghost, or hobgoblin. In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts They go through, Hopeful feeling the bottom all along; Christian still in character, not without some horror, and frightened by hobgoblins. Bunyan How odd a single hobgoblin's nonentity Should cause more fear than a whole host's identity. Victor's Triumph Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend It was a narrow way, between 'the Ditch and the Quag, and past the very mouth of the Pit,' full of frightful sights and dreadful noises, of hobgoblins, and dragons, and chimeras dire. The Balladists Famous Scots Series But the historian's path is still like that of Bunyan's hero, bordered by pitfalls and haunted by hobgoblins, though certain of his giant adversaries are crippled and one or two slain. Introduction to the Study of History It belonged to the worst hobgoblin that ever lived, and had been made by his wicked little demons. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales It was the more creditable to Bunyan, too, because the spectres and hobgoblins had begun occasionally to revisit him. Bunyan Its wings––eighteen feet across from tip to tip––were not the wings of a bird, but of a bat or a hobgoblin. In the Morning of Time She kept out of her sight, and entertained little Ambrose with stories of fairies and elfs and imps and hobgoblins till the time came for her to go up the hill to the Ratcliffes' house. Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney The colonel eyed the wreck of the hobgoblin with satisfaction. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill This delighted the hobgoblin, who ordered his little demons to carry the mirror all over the world and to do as much mischief with it as they could. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales He had come to the end of the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and the spectres and the hobgoblins which had jibbered at him suddenly all vanished. Bunyan My dictionary, the one that has 2412 pages, says that a Poltergeist is a "racketing spectre," probably what we who are not dictionary makers would call a hobgoblin. Home Life in Germany Giants and genii are nothing to what my credulity is capable of; and as for fairies and hobgoblins, I can swallow them by wholesale. The Land of Thor And why on earth did they sleep among the ghosts and hobgoblins? Through Finland in Carts The servants meanwhile filled his fancy with ghosts and hobgoblins. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. If the creature were not so utterly mean, I would drop him into the forge-fire with all the stuff of his forging, the old imbecile hobgoblin! The Wagnerian Romances The one little word "Come," from his lips, drove away all mental hobgoblins. The Old Helmet, Volume II By way of example it might possibly happen that a hobgoblin or a fairy steps in through the keyhole and leads you into temptation. Turandot, Princess of China A Chinoiserie in Three Acts It may take many upheavals of the seismic soul of man before the hobgoblins of authority are finally laid in the valley. An Anarchist Woman The people's rude superstitions are being abolished: hobgoblins, sorcerers, witches.… Fruits of Culture On the way, he had a high time in the gorges of the hills with a horrible hobgoblin of the species called empusa by the Greeks. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages That loss was to Ruth like a snickering hobgoblin attending the specter of death. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Other hobgoblin forms with huge probosces crawl slowly over the floors of the anemone caves, or crouch as the shadow of my hand or net falls upon them. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year He forgot her ugly form—he knew that the grace and mercy of God could be evinced even by means of hobgoblins—he put up earnest prayers, and sang holy hymns. The Sand-Hills of Jutland The little gray rabbits, sitting up on end, were like circles of hobgoblins that dispersed and vanished at the approach of mortals. Vixen, Volume II. It is to be hoped that, as schools multiply and education increases, the follies and superstitions which underlie a belief in ghosts and hobgoblins will pass away. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages He gave a desperate shy in the hollow at sight of a shaggy donkey, with a swollen appearance about the head, suggestive, to the equine mind, of hobgoblins. Vixen, Volume I. For when we say bug, or for that matter bogy or bugbear, we are garbling the sound which our very, very forefathers uttered when they saw a specter or hobgoblin. Edge of the Jungle He sprang out of bed and took a hot and cold shower; hobgoblins fled, although he felt no inclination to sing! Black Oxen "No, Polly; not while I'm a live woman," replied Siller, who really had some sense when she could forget her fear of hobgoblins. Little Grandmother I am not a hobgoblin, though I may pose as one now and then. Fernley House The theistic phase of thought is an inevitable one in human evolution, but it is no more a permanent one than is the belief in hobgoblins. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative I remember being awoke at six o'clock on the morning of the 14th of August, and being told a hobgoblin story, which made me rub my eyes, and doubt my own hearing. Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 It was a singular place—the grey, smooth, rocky precipices—the strip of blue sky far above—an open chasm, in which one would naturally expect if anywhere, to encounter spirits and hobgoblins. The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West We reached Ruffin, nevertheless, in good time, and went whirling home in a comfortable railway coach, filled not with hobgoblins, but with civilized human beings. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 A hundred elves and fairies, hobgoblins and wood-nymphs danced in and out about groups of strangely dressed grown-up people, who were neither in court costume nor in real masquerade. Historic Boyhoods Between robbers and hobgoblins there seemed small choice, but he chose robbers. The Man from the Bitter Roots A roasted hobgoblin will be served soon after the meeting opens. Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's A single hobgoblin bassoon croaks ludicrously away, the pixies darkle and flirt and dance their hearts out of them. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions I remember the Rhine and the Black Forest and all the other haunts of elves and fairies and hobgoblins; but for good, honest spooks there is no place like home. Tales of Fantasy and Fact I’m neither a lovesome young damsel nor a hobgoblin, that thou shouldst set eyes on me thus. The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century It was Saturday, no wonder that he was sleepy, and, in spite of his fears of ghosts and hobgoblins, that he dropped asleep. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading They say that ghosts and hobgoblins, and all sorts of bad spirits go wandering up and down night after night, and won’t let the people in the Tower sleep. Washed Ashore The Tower of Stormount Bay I used to think that devils and hobgoblins lurked in those cavernous depths, and now I fancy evil men may be hiding in the blackness, all ready to spring out and strangle one. The Nebuly Coat I know you have always believed in Irish fairies and elves and hobgoblins and the like, and used to fuss with poor Mollie and me outrageously because we couldn't or wouldn't see them. The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World "Why, Clifton, you imagine that he's a hobgoblin—a sort of wild child of the Highlands." The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras He had often before trembled at hearing such sounds, thinking that they were made by the evil spirits or hobgoblins of whom Bill Hagger had told him. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading Ghosts and hobgoblins could not silence or affright it. The Shadow World Above protrude the barrels of the rifles, while below dangle the horse-tails, making, by their constantly dangling to and fro, the night-march a very promenade of hobgoblins. Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia Hugo Montfort is no hobgoblin ghost in a white sheet, with a pumpkin head! Three Margarets A mutual belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks, hobgoblins and imbecilities. A Book of Burlesques Had this hobgoblin man, who might be my own father, rescued me from death at the claws of the grizzly and bound my wounds for me, or was that but a dream too? The Black Wolf Pack Beyond this, on the farther boundary of grey rails, three buzzards were sitting, seen like hobgoblins through the veiling snow. The Long Roll Yet this would be a great help, for it is our lawless and uncertain thoughts, it is the indefiniteness of our impressions, that fill darkness, whether mental or physical, with spectres and hobgoblins. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American As he drew nigh to the castle, he saw the old witch fly away on her broomstick, accompanied by a bevy of snarling hobgoblins that were also on broomsticks and looked very hideous. Second Book of Tales They emerged from the gloom on all sides like red hobgoblins—wet and perspiring. Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories How odd, a single hobgoblin's nonentity Should cause more fear than a whole host's identity. Don Juan Don't speak a word," I cried, "it will only make your toothache worse; and don't look as if some hobgoblin had jumped up on the kitchen table. That Affair Next Door Seen in the bright glow of the morning sun, the castle had a pleasing, cheerful aspect, with nothing of the dark, gloomy, hobgoblin style of architecture about it, such as Mrs Radcliffe delighted to describe. Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar She was attended by twelve snapdragons, a score of hobgoblins, and innumerable gnomes, elves, ghouls, and hoodoos. Second Book of Tales I would rather have faced a whole array of the most monstrous hobgoblins, than have felt that I was surrounded, as I knew I was, by a herd of those brutes—the wolves. Dick Onslow Among the Redskins They will be spinning all sorts of yarns to each other about hobgoblins appearing on board.” Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures She puts to shame that steward of yours, who came skulking into the cabin just now as white as a sheet, declaring we were going to be boarded by ghosts or hobgoblins of some sort.” The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea Here, mother, try and teach this boy to think better, and not go and believe that every sound he hears is all troll and hobgoblin. Steve Young Mr Benden’s first gasp of horror that the hobgoblin should address him by name, was succeeded by a second of relief as he recognised the voice. All's Well Alice's Victory Now it happened that Tafi was a very superstitious man, believing that demons and hobgoblins walked the earth at their pleasure. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) The devil and his attendant hobgoblins are active people in this people's minds. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development There were lucky signs, lucky dreams, spirits, and hobgoblins, a grisly collection, gathered by our wandering ancestors from the demonologies of Asia and Europe. The Promised Land Pray, is there not some hobgoblin or merry sprite playing his antics about your premises, my worthy host?’ The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 "I don't want to set up a hobgoblin in my own corn-patch, and almost at my own doorstep," said Mother Rigby to herself, puffing out a whiff of smoke. Short Stories of Various Types When the fire was burning its liveliest, a hobgoblin appeared, drawing in a car the figure of a witch, surrounded by fairies carrying lances. The Book of Hallowe'en At this moment, a little grey-headed hobgoblin, who had heard that a living man was arrived, flung himself at my feet, weeping abundantly. The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell Red chambers, red hobgoblins, all such predictions are of equal value. Napoleon the Little "I'll put me on my great carnation nose, and wrap me in a rousing calf-skin suit, and come like some hobgoblin." The Peace Egg and Other tales Dimmer, darker, more obscure, the door, a vast unexplored cavern gathered to itself the hobgoblins of evil and gave them shelter. The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV Fond of cellar, barn, or stack True unto the almanac, They present to credulous eyes Strange hobgoblin mysteries. The Book of Hallowe'en My fancy is only the shadow of what was certainly a reality not so very long ago; while your stories are spook yarns of the most hobgoblin shape. Pocket Island A Story of Country Life in New England It was seriously averred by dozens of persons that they had actually witnessed the hobgoblins in the enjoyment of their fiendish fun. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales “We're desperately afraid of hobgoblins,” cried Frank, rushing into his room and blowing their candle out. Louis' School Days A Story for Boys On the Island of Java are found a family of strange, dwarfish little beings, which are called by the natives malmags, or hobgoblins. The Human Side of Animals I wanted to p'int it out to Ma, but I was afeard it might go hard with 'er, for she's a believer in hobgoblins, an' might 'a' raised a noise. Dixie Hart Given the right conditions, and our imaginations will surround us with hobgoblins and spectres by day as well as night, and almost upset the reasoning power of strong men. Pocket Island A Story of Country Life in New England Dousterswivel, like all others who resort to enchantments, believing in the existence of hobgoblins and divination, was not certain but his own art had really contributed to the success of his party. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales The language, which you quote, about an attempt to recall on one side, "the cruelties of the Catholic Church and frighten our women and children with horrid hobgoblins," is not my language. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 Then, with attempt at jocularity for which he later could have kicked himself: "I'm just in time to see you home, and head off hobgoblins and hoboes." Lanier of the Cavalry or, A Week's Arrest You're not going to frighten me in that hobgoblin sort of way, you know. Can You Forgive Her? The young men refused to stay one moment on that haunted spot, but hurried down the mountain as if the whole troop of hobgoblins had been at their heels. Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know The ancients buried their dead at their own houses, whence arose the fear of hobgoblins, and a belief in lares, supposed to be the souls of the deceased. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales We must remember that at this time belief in witchcraft, fairies, sprites, ghosts, hobgoblins, magic and supernatural powers was common. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists A little while later and the prairie became obscurely shadowy, peopled all at once by frightful things, familiar everyday things changed to hideous hobgoblins by the chrism of the dark. The Way of the Wind Brasseur, under akab-maax, speaks of a phantom or hobgoblin of this name, which he says signifies “the great monkey of the night.” Day Symbols of the Maya Year Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-1895, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 199-266. And he must have been a very smart hobgoblin to know so well which was your room—that seems to me as if he must be an acquaintance of our very earthly-looking castellan. Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside My grandfather believed in it, and in spooks and hobgoblins. The Last Harvest Simple people think of imagination as that quality of mind which revels in tales of fairies and hobgoblins, but imagination of this character is undisciplined and undeveloped. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists "Let me kiss your pretty forehead again, so that the hobgoblins within may be silent and sleep." Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda) Do you think they ever came across a ghost, or an apparition, or a fairy, or an elf, or a witch, or a hobgoblin, or a giant, or a Blue-Beard, or a wolf? Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match How odd, a single hobgoblin's nonentity Should cause more fear than a whole host's identity! The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 You should have seen my shade stretch under the moon like a tall hobgoblin. The Lady of Fort St. John Perhaps outside the beacon's glare hobgoblins and fairies danced. Old Kaskaskia The reaction against the photographic style, on the other hand, leads to spasmodic efforts to arouse the jaded interest by forced sensationalism, physiological bestialities, and a crude form of the hobgoblin and bogey business. Studies in Early Victorian Literature And, of course, the duties of the watchman oblige him, when so assigned, to patrol the basement of the building, where all sorts of hobgoblins lie in wait. The Best Ghost Stories Now we are about to begin, and you must attend; and when we get to the end of the story, you will know more than you do now about a very wicked hobgoblin. Stories from Hans Andersen Great God! had he become a child again, to tremble before imagined evil, a mere hobgoblin of the mind? Bob Hampton of Placer I am really glad that I have awakened and find that the hobgoblins, and gnomes, and brownies are no less little people than my own four children. A Little Mother to the Others Only a single gas jet flickered overhead, and this cast fantastic shadows which made the little boy think of ghosts and hobgoblins. The Bobbsey Twins Or, Merry Days Indoors and Out In his state of mind, did he not believe in fairy tales, sailors' superstitions, the Flying Dutchman, and hobgoblins? Atlantis I have often warned you against stories of ghosts and hobgoblins, and shown you on how frail a foundation they generally rest. Stories about the Instinct of Animals, Their Characters, and Habits Nay, I say these hobgoblins give us them, and that even as Satan was permitted to afflict holy Job, so they afflict you. The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars "Why have you come to raise a disturbance in my theater?" asked the showman of Pinocchio, in the gruff voice of a hobgoblin suffering from a severe cold in the head. Pinocchio The Tale of a Puppet The "hylo" is also useful in bedrooms where children are put to sleep, affording sufficient light to daunt the hobgoblins without discouraging the approach of the sandman. The Complete Home His person is monstrous, and he is the product of unnatural lust; and his language is as hobgoblin as his person; in all things he is distinguished from other mortals. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 Here we have the hobgoblins of the Teutonic imagination and the rude, boisterous, humorous Wotan of the Scandinavian imagination—the Odin who tried to drink the sea dry and laughed to find he could not. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas The truth is, hobgoblins, from Puck to Will-o'-the-wisp, are apt to play practical jokes and knock people about whom they meet after sunset. Tales from Many Sources Vol. V If with the fishes we had felt with friends, and with the lobsters as if with hobgoblins, with the prawns we seemed to find ourselves among ghosts. Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men They are in fact passing through the stage which corresponds to the dawn of the human race, when demons, dragons, fairies, and hobgoblins were as firmly believed in as rivers and mountains. The Beacon Second Reader If there was any thing Satanic, as some were pleased to express it, in his poetry, he was not, at all events, of the hobgoblin or demoniac school. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 There have been, he tells us in effect, so many false miracles, superstitious stories of witches, conjurors, ghosts, hobgoblins, of cures by royal touch, and the like,—and therefore the Scripture miracles are false! Reason and Faith; Their Claims and Conflicts From The Edinburgh Review, October 1849, Volume 90, No. CLXXXII. (Pages 293-356) He saw, too, the hobgoblins and dragons, but all afar off, for after break of day they came not nigh. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories Annoyed by hobgoblins with whom he was obliged to converse, he got rid of them by surrounding himself with a consecrated imaginary enclosure into which they were unable to enter against his will. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji No one dared to gaze at the rocks, lest he should see some hideous hobgoblin peering out of their fissures. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest "A ghost or a witch," he wrote, "is a sine qua non ingredient in all the dishes of which I mean to compose my hobgoblin repast." A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century The only treatment for hobgoblins like that was plain endurance. The Real Adventure We also saw hobgoblins and dragons, and we heard a continual howling and yelling as of people in great misery. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories He scarcely dared to breathe lest the hobgoblin should observe and seize him likewise. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 Slowly her eyes grew wide; she seemed to be riding out of dreamland on some hobgoblin beast. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel The Education Act in operation for all these years, and our lower orders still believe in bogies and hobgoblins! Cecilia de Noël And with that confession, the whole pack of hobgoblin terrors she had kept at bay so valiantly since shutting her husband's door behind her, were upon her back. The Real Adventure I know that you can at will catch the devilish hobgoblins which molest human beings. Myths and Legends of China Let us fearlessly enter these abodes of darkness, throw open the shutters, and let in the light of day, and the hobgoblins will flee. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 At last some of the men determined to find out what this strange light was—whether it was a hobgoblin dancing in the air, or something dropped from the sky. McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader Could any one look out of the window at what is going on in the streets below, and at the same time believe in fairies and hobgoblins? The Sorcery Club My cards will tell me everything, and sometime, when I have turned into a hideous hobgoblin, those whom I shall haunt will remember me! The Nameless Castle Here they have a little terror of small hobgoblins, good-natured fairies, a love-sick river-sprite, and so forth, beings who with us in the north, almost go about our houses like superstition's tame domestic animals. The Visionary Pictures From Nordland Thomas took her by the weak side, and usually arrested her "light-horse gallop of clish ma-claver" by some specious story of ghost or hobgoblin adventures, with which he had been detained. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 475, February 5, 1831 This is why great deserts, like the Desert of Gamo in Tartary, have always been the supposed abode of fearful shades, hobgoblins, and ghostly spectres. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times To be normal is the cry of all the hobgoblins ... Romance Island He stoutly maintained that the hobgoblins must have had something or other to do with the Parki. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I They make themselves the wives and the paramours of men; or the serviceable hobgoblin fixes himself, like a cat, in the house—once and for ever. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Enlivened by his brightening prospects, he began to caper about the kitchen like a hobgoblin, with the queerest antics of his lean limbs and gesticulations of his starved features. Twice Told Tales And as for her Majesty, we will defend her Against our hobgoblin, the Popish Pretender. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 They fancied a legion of hobgoblins let loose upon them, and that they saw by the fitful gleams of the scattered embers, strange figures in red caps gibbering and ramping around them. Tales of a Traveller "Keep off the fiend--the hobgoblin--he has got burning arrows--snakes! snakes! there are snakes in the bed!" The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune The reason is, the women make us the hobgoblins of their children, telling them 'these white men bite children, feed them with dead men's brains, and all manner of nonsense. The Personal Life of David Livingstone Lest that should not be sufficient, the servants had, stuck by the fireplace, the portraiture of a hobgoblin, to which they had given the name of Palethorp. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 But his active brain soon put to flight this hobgoblin; he thought of the bit of a blue newspaper—the Otsego Herald—printed in Cooperstown by the father of his comrade. James Fenimore Cooper The man tried in vain to remember the name of a single saint, so held was he by the breathless expectancy in the eyes of the little hobgoblin. Hillsboro People But when she opened the basket to see what was inside, all sorts of hobgoblins and elves sprang out of it, and began to torment her. Tales of Old Japan A queer kind of a hobgoblin that must be to keep whimpering like a baby, and then fluttering to beat the band. The Boy Scouts with the Motion Picture Players "My uncle was up there once and the hobgoblins took his things away from him." Young Hunters of the Lake A very strident phrase that plays in the brass Allegro molto, may be some hobgoblin, or rather an evil jinn, that holds the princess captive and wrecks the hero's vessel. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies Poets have imagined no utterance of fiends Or hobgoblins so fearfully appropriate as a laugh. Short-Stories The haggard faces of the two women appeared above the companion like two hobgoblins conjured up. The Man Who Laughs If it weren't for that hobgoblin of a Knave I should say it was quite so. The Knave of Diamonds Peregrine deferred his hobgoblin laughter, for success emboldened him farther. A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago After all, is not the sawdust ring with its strange people, its giants, fairies, hobgoblins, and clowns, a fairy land, not really real, and therefore no more wicked than fairy land? Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" I want you to understand right at the start that I don't believe in any stuff about ghosts and hobgoblins. The Crime of the French Café and Other Stories Ghosts, witches, hobgoblins fell into the procession of pursuers, cheered on by the shrieking wind that grew more noisome as her feet carried her higher up the mountain. Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 It does us no harm to confess our failures, and it puts courage into other pilgrims, who know at least that they are not alone in their encounters with the hobgoblins. The Silent Isle I heard him laughing like a hobgoblin, and saw him too, grinning over a tombstone like the malicious elf he is.” A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago His amazing talent.—In those dark ages … the Hoopoe was considered as prodigiously skilful in defeating the machinations of witches, wizards, and hobgoblins. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil It is a sensitive sore that will never heal, a grim hobgoblin that nought can scare away. My Brilliant Career Sacre! to think the mercenary old hunks could dream of sacrificing my lovely Lucy to such a hobgoblin of a fellow as a superannuated dragoon quartermaster, with a beak like Bardolph's in the play. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 339, November 8, 1828 The hobgoblin’s wife repeated, “If you value your life at all, go away.” Deccan Nursery Tales or, Fairy Tales from the South “He would take me for one of the hobgoblins that beset Master Christian.” A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago “Do you know how much money there is in that thing?” he asked, as if addressing slowly some hobgoblin sitting between the ears of the horse. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale It was, as Bella gaily said, like the supper provided for the three nursery hobgoblins at their house in the forest, without their thunderous low growlings of the alarming discovery, 'Somebody's been drinking MY milk!' Our Mutual Friend Sit down beside this light: this is your ring of safety, budge not beyond - the night is crowded with hobgoblins. Plays of William E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson For, if my husband the hobgoblin sees you, he will tear you to pieces and gobble you up.” Deccan Nursery Tales or, Fairy Tales from the South But surely this was reality! and the year of grace 1792: there were no fairies and hobgoblins about. The Scarlet Pimpernel Poets have imagined no utterance of fiends or hobgoblins so fearfully appropriate as a laugh. The Snow Image and other stories Enlivened by his brightening prospects, he began to caper about the kitchen like a hobgoblin, with the queerest antics of his lean limbs, and gesticulations of his starved features. From Twice Told Tales And, lo and behold! out jumped all sorts of wicked hobgoblins and imps, and they scratched and pinched her to death. Good Stories for Holidays Since die I must, let me die the quickest way; and since I must be eaten at the best of it, let me rather be eaten by hobgoblins than by men. Island Nights' Entertainments The hobgoblins in a nightmare seemed not more unreal to him now. Captivating Mary Carstairs Nor is there any harm in Turkish tales, nor wonderful ditties, of ghosts and hobgoblins. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 The people's rude superstitions are being abolished: hobgoblins, sorcerers, witches.... Redemption and two other plays Careless of formal consistency—"the hobgoblin of little minds"—he balances his aristocratic reserve with a belief in democracy, in progression by antagonism, and in collective wisdom as a limit to collective folly. Thomas Carlyle What he loved and sought was ever the savage, the legend-haunted, the ghoulish, seats and ambuscades of kelpie, hobgoblin, brownie and their kind. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" But, to say the truth, a prodigiously fat man always impresses me as a kind of hobgoblin; in the very extravagance of his mortal system I find something akin to the immateriality of a ghost. P.'s Correspondence (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") These hobgoblins of flesh and blood were attracted thither by the widespreading influence of a great original thinker, who had his earthly abode at the opposite extremity of our village. The Old Manse (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") Ghosts, hobgoblins, and devils were, in the sequel, introduced. Paris as It Was and as It Is "Zeluco!" he exclaimed, in an ironical tone of disdain: "why not the charming 'Sorrows of Werter,' or some of our fashionable hobgoblin romances?" Tales and Novels — Volume 01 No one inhabited it but Vanderscamp's shrew of a widow, and old Pluto, and they were considered but little better than its hobgoblin visitors. Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies I'm not a beauty," he mused, "but neither am I a hobgoblin. The King in Yellow He saw ghosts and hobgoblins wherever he went, and after a time began to look upon himself as a sort of enchanted prince in a world of magic. The Life of John Clare Accordingly, at my Lord Lucifer's first course, hobgoblins, alias imps in cowls, are a standing dish. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 And, as if it were an herb every whit as holy as the vervain, and reverenced by ghosts, spirits, hobgoblins, fiends, and phantoms, the bodies of deceased men are never buried without it. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 In the olden time, everything that happened some deity produced, some spirit, some devil, some hobgoblin, some dryad, some fairy, some spook, something except nature. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. Through this business of skyrockets and crescendos and hobgoblins M. Coini stands out like a lighthouse in a cubist storm. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago If I live and come among them, I might become a hobgoblin, who would comb down their pride by the grace of God. Life of Luther There on the bottom of the bed was a fearful hobgoblin, so Tommy Man thought, with big round eyes, awfully long legs and wings, and a beak that looked like a trooper's sword. Mouser Cats' Story He had a childish fear of darkness and hobgoblins; he worked largely "on his nerves"; he had an abnormal interest in graves, ghouls and the terrors which preternatural subjects inspire in superstitious minds. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived So Drayton, A pain he in his head-piece feels, Against a stubbed tree he reels, And up went poor hobgoblin's heels; Alas, his brain was dizzy.—— Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies The music leaps into a gaudy balloon and sails away in marvelous zigzags, way over the heads of the hobgoblins on the stage and the music critics off the stage. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago He who now ought to have been a lawyer himself, came among them as a hobgoblin, who checked their pride by the grace of God. Life of Luther If you are a lover of the antique, my estate will afford you pleasure; you find there moats, towers, guard-rooms, ghosts, and hobgoblins, such as belong to an old estate. O. T. a Danish Romance He was a delicate child, shy, sensitive, elflike, who wandered through the woods near his home, in Sussex, on the lookout for sprites and hobgoblins. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived Emerson seemed to recognize how shallow rationalism makes people when he declared that "a small consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds—little philosophers, little statesmen and little divines." To Infidelity and Back We pretend to make little men and women out of our children, and we make little dwarfs and hobgoblins out of them. Confessions and Criticisms Are the stories of witches, ghosts, wizards, hobgoblins, etc., more absurd and difficult to believe than the magical or impossible action of mind upon matter? Good Sense He believed in witches and hobgoblins: he had seen them and experienced them and used to tell us stories that almost made us afraid of our own shadows. My Boyhood Fancy peopled its confines with flitting shapes, and beheld a grinning hobgoblin in the grotesque stump of many a half-burnt tree, on which the light momentarily flickered. The Bushman — Life in a New Country You have always, somebody said the other night, lions in the path; but I will not dignify them with the name of lions—they are but hobgoblins. Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 He who takes no thought Of such hobgoblins, lives the easiest life. Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles It is also productive of much mischief to talk of mysteries, ghosts, and hobgoblins, before children, which many persons are too apt to do. The Infant System For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age It is the name of a species of satyr, or esprit follet, a sort of mountain Puck or hobgoblin, seen among the wilds and mountains, as the old Highlanders believed, sometimes mirthful, sometimes mischievous. Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) It was also observed, that he was troubled with apparitions of hobgoblins and evil spirits; for ever and anon he would intimate so much by words. Bible Stories and Religious Classics That this was a mere mockery of a religious institution, and therefore unpleasing in the sight of Heaven; witness the demons and hobgoblins that were permitted to disturb and torment him in his trial. The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves Men of this sort appear to have an impression that you are still children amused with a Jack-in-the-box which springs up in a very conceited hobgoblin way. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out Some few persons I have met by chance, and sent them home heartily frighted, as from the oddness of my dress and figure they took me for a ghost or a hobgoblin. History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Now, let us take a little breath after so many fatigues; let us stop for a while the current of our intrigues, and not move about hither and thither as if we were hobgoblins. The Blunderer Fed on stories of ghosts and hobgoblins in childhood, his active, sensitive imagination became an easy prey to these fears. Our Friend John Burroughs The squire, who was none of those who set hobgoblins at defiance, being afraid to enter the church alone at these hours, bargained with the ostler to accompany and light him with a lantern. The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves At length we stopped in the red glare of an awful burning amidst a company of hobgoblins out of harmony with all human shape or symmetry. Mr. World and Miss Church-Member A twentieth century allegory Why, I'm tempted By strange phantoms and hobgoblins Like another San Antonio:— In this doorway I'll ensconce me, Till my friend here kindly passes. The Purgatory of St. Patrick The rumors of ghosts and hobgoblins gossip and tell fortunes. Representative Men Its leaves are used in divination to find out witches, thieves, liars, etc., and it is the chosen haunt of ghosts and hobgoblins of all sorts—hence its frequent appearance in folk-lore. Tales of the Punjab Besides, said they, you must go over the Valley of the Shadow of Death, where the hobgoblins are; where the light is darkness; where the way is full of snares, pits, traps, and gins. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 It was also observed that he was troubled with apparitions of hobgoblins and evil spirits; for ever and anon he would intimate so much by words. The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works He went on, saying I might as ,Well fear hobgoblins, and that I had only to hold up my head to be above them all. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 McKay saw the rock-eagles alight heavily on the shelf, then, squealing defiance, hulk forward, undeterred by the hobgoblin tumult of the lammergeier. In Secret My friend, we shall be tempted to laugh at you if you insist on entertaining us with such hobgoblin fancies. Do and Dare — a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune Oh! the hobgoblins will have me! the hobgoblins will have me! cried he; and I could not beat him out on it. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 "One who imbibes unwholesomely large quantities of strong green tea, and sees hobgoblins peering at her through the window-panes!" said Rosa, sarcastically artless, tripping by in season to overhear this clause of his small-talk. At Last That was the best part of it, said the hobgoblin. The Pink Fairy Book Finally he disappeared, like a hobgoblin, laughing, 'Ho! ho! ho!' Hyperion In the time when there were hobgoblins and fairies, Brother Goat and Brother Rabbit lived in the same neighborhood, not far from each other. Short Stories for English Courses A fairy or hobgoblin, a little man or woman. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue "I saw the hobgoblin without the aid of green tea," she rejoined. At Last The hobgoblin laughed till his sides ached, but still the tiny bits of glass flew about. The Pink Fairy Book Under the circumstances I think it best to strike off toward the road, leaving them to draw their own conclusions as to whether I am Sheitan himself, or merely a plain, inoffensive hobgoblin. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran He seemed to get off on killing hobgoblins. Underground I do not know exactly what the terrors which Ruskin suffered were—very few people will tell the tale of the valley of hobgoblins, or probably cannot! Where No Fear Was Will you dare the lair of the conquered foe, or fear you to be pinched with aches and pains by his lurking hobgoblins? Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland Cognizant of these palpable contradictions, Emerson boldly avows and defends them, by declaring that 'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. Beulah There are in Plato's narrative no marvels; no myths; no tales of gods, gorgons, hobgoblins, or giants. Atlantis : the antediluvian world The fairies, too, are all let loose, and hobgoblins of every sort roam freely about. The Golden Bough However, it was an uncanny place, fit for hobgoblins, and shades, and funny customers, which will do as well for my purpose. The Daisy chain, or Aspirations "Hast seen any hobgoblins, Cis?" said Diccon, at her other side. Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland "What does that hobgoblin contain, that it prevents your embracing me?" Old Fritz and the New Era He had always been afraid of ghosts and demons; and it had long been necessary that three friars should watch every night by his restless bed as a guard against hobgoblins. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 I should be afraid of my life of the ghosts and hobgoblins. The Pigeon Pie Every object appears to them in a false light; they are like children who, at each turn of the road, see in each tree or bush some frightful hobgoblin. The Ancient Regime The hobgoblins should eat out his heart ere they touched me!’ she repeated to herself, as though the saying were the most poetical concert sung on minstrel lover’s lute. The Caged Lion He is not at all an object of worship nor of fear, except to children, being considered merely as a kind of hobgoblin. The Naturalist on the River Amazons Dimly outlined against the night, he has the appearance of a friendly hobgoblin. They and I They fancied a legion of hobgoblins let loose upon them, and that they saw, by the fitful gleams of the scattered embers, strange figures, in red caps, gibbering and ramping around them. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American To say it represents an utterly incredible hobgoblin is to express in faint and inadequate language the license of its sprawling lines. A Miscellany of Men Below us in the middle of a steep hollow, a pit in the hill-side, a light shone out through some aperture and quivered on the mist, like the pale lamp of a moorland hobgoblin. Under the Red Robe Might he not just as well take off his head and turn out to be a hobgoblin? The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare SOCRATES: There again, noble Polus, you are raising hobgoblins instead of refuting me; just now you were calling witnesses against me. Gorgias Perhaps there was in the young American's nature just enough remains of belief in witches and hobgoblins to make him feel warranted in resorting to extreme measures. The Golden Fleece, a romance The pedants of the human race have treated it like a little child: they have prescribed to it good behavior by frightening it with spirits and hobgoblins. The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature Thou art, I confess, like enough to those spirits which walk in dry places; but Richard fears no hobgoblins. The Talisman It must be said that, since Nell had appeared in her own person, Jack Ryan had been obliged to admit that his belief in hobgoblins was in a measure weakened. The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern This phrase in Katie's nursery had taken the time-honored place of bugaboos, and hobgoblins, and men under the bed. A Biography of Sidney Lanier "Our allies," they said, "stand in as much awe of these peltasts as children of the bogies and hobgoblins of their nurses." Hellenica Had Davidson seen a real hobgoblin his eyes could not have bulged more than at this small boy in a dirty white blouse and ragged knickers. Within the Tides "I say!" he cries like the hobgoblin in the story. Bleak House Human imagination never conceived hobgoblin or witch more ugly than she. 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